William Dingwall{ design + development }

My name's William Dingwall, but feel free to call me Bill. I'm a web { designer + developer } UX, UI, Front End Development, but I also work a lot as a graphic designer; logos, graphics, illustration, print. Add in a passion for branding.

Work comes first, but outside the office I love to be outdoors. I'm a traveler & adventurer / wanna be photographer, beer enthusiast, and home brew hopeful; with a minor coffee addiction.

Hope you enjoy.

Work

Web Design

Front Seat 101

{ Web Design + Front End Dev + Wordpress }

Designed and Developed working with Hero Design Studio. The goal of this site was to create a child theme of the Agency theme for WordPress that extended their brand. Their business wasn't ready for a full site, so they figured to just start blogging; we figured we'd start build up their brand. Already having a logo and their own style of illustration, I wanted to incorporate as much of that as I could, and design + develop something that really tied together & extended those elements.

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Denver Folklore Center

{ Web Design }

Rustic / "Old Timely", Inviting, Bad Ass, and Obviously a Music Store. These were some of the goals outlined before starting the design. Designed and currently being built with Hero Design Studio, I started with a their new logo and a wire frame, then went to town.

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Web Development

RealColorado.net

{ Front End Dev + Wordpress + Web Design }

Done working with the Light Group in Brookfield, CO. They handed my a mock of the homepage and I took it from their. Polished the design, filled out the details, built it in wordpress, and deployed. The gallery was custom built with jQuery, as well as much of the interactions throughout the site.

Graphic Design

Galaxy Unlocker

{ Graphic Design + Front End Dev + Shopify }

They wanted something “futuristic”, bright, with a shine to it. An "info graphic" / brand graphic that could be used to help extend the brand in multiple areas. He wanted to show the basic process of having a locked phone, installing the GalaxyUnlocker software on a computer, unlocking the phone through the computer, and having an unlocked phone. We reiterated the design numerous times to fit different parts of the site, the shopping process, the software itself, etc. This shot was from the software.

Holtey Law

{ Identity Design : Logos }

As a divorce lawyer, he wanted something fair, something that communicated two sides of a situation, while at the same time “don’t f*** with me”, and he wanted to incorporate the “H”. So with these logo variations I focused on a stark contrast between light and dark, something that took those two sides to create something larger within the logo – the “H”.

Illustration

Danger Mouse

{ Oil Pastel + Photoshop }

Sketchbook

{ Illustration : Graphite + Charcoal }

Two drawings taken from two of my sketchbooks. On the right an over exaggerated scene from the after math of my roommate’s dog playing with stuffed animals and some graffiti that I thought was interesting while biking along the waterfront in Portland, OR.

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Services

{skills} What I do, or at least tend to focus on; always happy for new challenges.

Interactive Design { UX + UI }
95%

Most of the interactive design I do is web based (websites, web apps, emails) with some app design. I definetly find it important to start with the UX, determine a logical user flow, how the interaction will behave, then add in all the UI elements, and refine. That common ground between UX & UI is what I try to find.

Print Design
85%

Print design really isn't all that different from interaction design, in that you still want to build a functional experience and you want it look nice (a stronger emphasis on the look). The way it folds, the way feels in your hands, how it opens, and of course how it looks are all important. A knowledge of different printing methods is nice too.

Brand / Identity Design
85%

Logos. Actually theirs more to it than that. The logo is big, but its also the type faces, the brand color, the tone the textures, etc... Theirs a lot of work that goes into a brand, into a companies identity. I just start with the logo.

Illustration
80%

Drawing got me into the design industry. It was my first creative passion. Used to be cars, athletes, landscapes, characters, doodles, scribbles; now its more or less what ever you want. I tend to start on paper, then bring it into Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Painter, and finish it up with a stylus.

if you build it, they will come - does not apply to the web. It has to be fast, work cross browser (and cross device), it has to have meaning, right down to the markup that only search engines see, and it has to bring the design to life. Designing with code. That's the approach I like to take.

Cross Device Development { desktop + tablets + smartphones }
90%

"Responsive", "Adaptive", however you want to phrase it, your site should work across most major devices. Every site I build "responds" to the width of the browser (sometimes height) but theirs also times when the content delivered needs to "adapt" to the the device. Really there's a number of approaches you can take to make a site work nicely across any device, bottom line is, its important that they do work. I work hard to make them do just that.

Content Management Systems { PHP + Wordpress(mostly) }
80%

Typically I use WordPress, its a simply PHP & mySQL based content management system that makes uploading and managing content on a website easy for just about anyone. Drupal's nice too.

Experience (work + school)

Or at least the experiences that shape me as a { designer + developer }

Commissioned Artist

09' ~ 10'

charcoal and pencil mostly, sold some pieces and set up larger ideas for clients.

painting

Commissioned by clients to paint various things. Collaborated on color, size subject matter, to fill various spaces. Worked independently on projects and displayed work around the city of Fort Collins.

graphic design

focused more on self promotion, although the occasional business card or logo would come my way.